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known to makers of vinegar (acids?), and much more its bark. The wood with its bark is so
similar to Tamarisk that if its smell and flavor didn’t prevent it, it could be taken for it. Its bark
is blackish on the inside where it adheres to the wood, and is lavis (washed out? washable?). On
the exterior, it is wrinkled and turns red from ash (when burned?). This wood has begun to be
more common then, and to be brought as almost entire tree trunks. But I have learned that it also
grows in Wingandecao, called Virginia by the English, who occupy it, and that from there, the
boughs of this tree have been brought to England.
“Chief Eyanoco and The Lost Colony”
1609: Strachey’s summary is very specific---“At Ritanoe (?),the weroance Eyanoco
preserved seven of the English alive, fower men, twoo Boyes, and one young Maid, who
eascaped and fled up the river of Choanoke, to beat his copper, of which he hath certayn mines at
the said Ritanoe, as also at Pannawaiack (Pananiok/Pomeyooc) are said to be store of salt stones”
(Miller, 2000: 259).